I had the displeasure of reading Daniel's blog about the Superbowl. This guy knows poker, nothing about sports (oK, I'll give him hockey, but who cares about hockey....only Canadians). To say the Bears fed off of bottom feeders is absurd. The Bears beat the Seahwaks (in the superbowl last year!!!) and they beat the Saints (#1 offense in the NFC) and we beat them 39-14!!

He says if it wasn't for the rain the Colts would of trounced the Bears....UM, it was raining for both teams!!!!

There were two bad plays. the INT that Grossman threw which was retuned for a TD and the pass that Clark was unable to hold onto. Not to mention that Benson was hurt and taken out of the game. Daniel needs to get a clue and not talk about sports in his blog and keep it to poker. I for one visit his site to read about poker and nothing else. I do not want to hear about anything else.

I can care less about his dog, his shopping list, or the newest season of 24.

Stop saying the Bears were mismatched and that Grossman should not of been in the game. The BEARS MADE IT TO THE BIG GAME with a rookie (for the most part) QB. By the way, Grossman's numbers are very similar to Mannings rookie year numbers for a full first season.

Also, Peyton Manning and his silver spoon moutyh can go **** himself.

1 TD, 1 INT and 254 yds passing is not MVP material. If anything give it to Rhodes or Addai...they deserved it more.

Such an absolute joke....as was Daniel's blog.

Write about poker......dipshit.

Grossman didn't play in very many games the last 3 years, but that does not mean he is a rookie. And yes, he did suck. You seem to have forgotten those two fumbles after it was 2nd and 1 that killed their drive, and the fact that he had a 68.3 QB rating in the Super Bowl. Your team played like ***, deal with it.

And Grossman was really the MVP for Indy, and will NEVER even come close to being anywhere as good as Peyton is. He won't even be as good as Eli.

Really going out on a limb there.


BTW who is that guy in your av?

Bitter much? They lost, get over it.

Hilarious. And another person is added to the ignore list. Have a nice day.

Yeah I get that they lost. That's not my point with my post. To say that they were mismatched and should not of been in the game is ludicrous. Yes, Grossman fumbled twice. BIG DEAL. Manning also threw a ridiculous INT on his first series. I expect more from a 9 year superstar and eventual MVP of the Superbowl. Grossman has been maligned in the media and still led his team to the SUPERBOWL! Brees, Hasselbeck, and Romo cant say that.

"you lost...get over it"

That is such a loser statement.

Next time you take a bad beat, do not even mention how the hand played out....do not get aggravated...do not even roll your eyes....you know why?

Because you lost....get over it.

Bears had a better overall record....and they never lost to the Houston Texans in the regular season.

The funny thing is that next year we will probably be back in the big game....and the year after that....and that.

Grossman will only get better, as will Benson.

If we lose though....I guess I will just have to "get over it"

That doesn't even make any sense.

Part of me is happy that Manning finally got his ring. Everyone can finally stop wishing for it so that they feel validated thinking this guy is one of the best.....Montana, Staubeck, Favre, Young are superstars......Not Manning.

1 TD, 1 INT, 254 yards passing.......MVP

HAHA....yeah right!

Yeah, but Grossman's multiple turnovers cost his team. Two fumbles to take a drive from 2 and 1 to 4 and 23, and two late INTs tend to kill a team, and those can only be blamed on Grossman.

No, but they did lose to Green Bay at home and needed a miracle from the D to beat Arizona. They also lost at home to Miami and lost in New England. The Colts won in New England to get to the Super Bowl.



And if you do, it's going to be thanks to a strong defense and the Jones/Benson combination.

Or quit being such a homer and actually look at the flaws in your team instead of blindly spouting the same stupid crap that Lovie Smith does about how Grossman led the team to such and such great record. Half the wins were despite Grossman's play, not because of.



Peyton's numbers through the end of this year are almost identical to Dan Marino's career numbers. Almost the exact same YPG (with a 5 yard edge to Peyton) and identical completion to TD ratio (with a difference of less than 1). For comparison, Montana's career numbers are slightly worse than those.

To say that Peyton isn't one of the best is the dumbest thing you've written in a long line of stupid.

I am assuming you forgot the (sw) after this paragraph.




He's not one of the best of all time right now, but he will be. Just like LT. You can't say he's the best RB ever just yet, but he will be by the time his career is over.



I do agree with you on that, I think Rhodes and Adai should have been co-MVPs, or possibly even Hayden (sp?).

True Peyton is one of the best in the league right now, but to say one of the greatest of all time is a bit of a stretch. Of course I am going to be a "homer" when it comes to the Bears. I will admit that the Colts were a bit of a superior team. However they did not blow us out and the game was in doubt until the 4th quarter. It just seems that the entire media across the country is saying that the Bears did not even deserve to be there. We beat both New York teams in their stadiums, blew out a bunch of other teams, etc. Sure we lost to Miami and needed a "miracle" (Hester and Ulacher) to win in Arizona, but that's football.

Not to mention that we lost Mike Brown and Tommy Harris to injury. If those two guys were in the bowl the game could of been much different. It doesn't even matter because even if we won, it would of been considered a lucky win or maybe Manning's thumb was bothering him. The only thing aggravating me is that several sports writers think it was a fluke we were in the game. 13-3 record and scoring 66 points in two play-off games is not a total "fluke". But whatever, game is a week old and I am looking forward to the best offensinve outfield in the league (CUBS) to bring it home this year. Notice I did not say best defensive outfield. HAHA. We better be scoring 15 runs a game to win next year.

One more post and I am done in reference to Grossman. In 1990, the Denver Broncos lost in the Superbowl by a score of 55-10. Let me repeat that....55-10.

The Broncos should of traded or just cut their total crap QB because obviously he could not play and cost his
team the game.

Man, that John Elway was just total garbage. What a terrible career he wound up having. I cant believe his coach stuck with him....I mean it's not like they were ever going to win a superbowl with John Elway or even two in a row for that matter......OH WAIT.....never mind.

LOL!!!! The thing is Elway didn't suck, his team did. As opposed to the Bears, who have a good team and a shitty QB.

I should clarify this. What I meant to say is that Peyton is the greatest all time when based solely on MasterCard commercials. "They're not saying boo, they're saying mooooooooovers."



Wrong forum, jackass.

I am a Bears fan also, so that's part of the reason I sort of agree with MTDRounders. If we had Tommy Harris and Mike Brown we would have got to Peyton Manning. We were a completely different defense without Tommy especially when it came to stopping the run. Rex Grossman has only played a year and a half maybe two years worth of games. He is going to be a good NFL quarterback in my opinion. John Madden said earlier this year he reminds him of a young Brett Favre. He has the confidence and the arm strength to make it in this league, I don't care what anyone says.
If I'm wrong, hey, at least he's got Super Bowl experience and playoff experience, and he will be valuable to a better offense in some sort of a trade.

See ya Chico








Bears won't renew Rivera's contract
Jay Glazer / FOXSports.com




Bears head coach Lovie Smith is making long-term plans for the future of the team and one of the plans could surprise many Bears fans.

FOXSports.com has learned that Chicago has decided to not renew the contract of defensive coordinator Ron Rivera. Team sources say that Smith and Rivera met recently and agreed to allow Rivera to pursue other opportunities. The sources also contend that Smith will likely end up promoting Bob Babich from linebackers coach to defensive coordinator.

People inside the Bears saw this coming for a while as Babich has been reached out to from a handful of teams in the last two off-seasons and Smith, who unlike many other coaches does not block his assistants from moving up, did not want to lose him. Thus, the head coach had a tough decision to make and promoting Babich was his choice.

Babich is also viewed as more of a long-term option for Smith as Rivera was in the running for several head coaching jobs this off-season and last year. To this point, however, he has failed to land one. He did not sign an extension last off-season, which allowed him to be a free agent after the Bears' Super Bowl run. Most teams figured he'd get one of the vacant head coaching openings and as a result has been left out in the cold.

As for a defensive coordinator opening, there's only one open right now and that is Ted Cottrell's for the taking in San Diego. Still, now that Rivera is officially free another team may decide to make a run at a man who helped guide a unit to this year's prized game.

Rivera has been with Smith since he took over the head coaching duties in Chicago.

Bears re-sign Grossman. Sigh..


It's such a shame that the bear's short window was squandered on one of the worst starting qb's of all time.

What's up with that 'pimp-stach' on their crappy quarterback?
What is this? 1970?


Shave...ya homo.

Sweeeeet

Forte looked good and Orton didn't **** up. Defense also looked good.

I thought all three of them looked really good.

WOOOOOOOOOT!

Suck it to everyone, especially the donkeys on ESPN.

Love the fact that even though the Bears gave em a wallop, all they talk about is Peyton. *sarcasticshockedface*

I'm sucking it.

See you in the Super Bowl?

That would be nice.

GOD DAMMIT!

i ****ing hate the bears so much. They need to ****ing suspend tillman a game check for that ****ing play. The worst part is, you could tell the ref's didn't want to throw a flag, they held onto the flags a long, long time, but tillman just kept fighting. Really tillman? Really? You're that much of a ****ing dysfunctional pyscho that you have to keep ****ing fighting, and cost your team the game? the ball was like at the 12, the bears would have had tremendous field position. but no... Tillman has to be the ****ing big dog, he has to be the ****ing tough guy, he has to keep fighting and cost his team the ****ing game. I hope they trade him to the ****ing chiefs. God. Damn. It. I'm not watching any more bears games this year, I can't take this level of ineptitude. And speaking of ineptitude, that Orton pick six was quite possibly the worst pass I've ever seen. Who was he throwing to, Kruetzr? At least, when like farve throws panic balls in the middle of the field, it's safty's that pick them off. Orton barely has the arm strength to get it to the line of scrimage.

Bahahahahaha at the Bears...what a bunch of fags

good one?

I'm with you, the meltdown of this week and last week have disheartened me to a point where I really have no desire to watch them.

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You know you're in a bad place as a sports fan, when you're depending on a Cubs World series victory to save your sanity.

I'm on such tilt after this game, like 9 hours after it's over, I still get angry thinking about it. Not like, kinda pissed.. but real, blood pressure building anger. I feel like I'm at some sort of crisis point as a bears fan.. 20+ years of mismanagement (starting with letting the wrong coach go after super bowl 20 (this might be blasphemy, but Ditka is a clown, maybe the worst head coach to win a super bowl_ ... they should have promoted Ryan to head coach)), of bad coaches, of terrible draft picks, of the worst QB corps of the last 2 decades.. after squandering the best chance of winning the super bowl since 1985 on god damn Rex Grossman... after all of the pain and failure... these last two weeks have made me just snap, I think.. I can't take it... Even watching the packers get killed tonight gave me little joy.

Imagine all the SuperBowls we might have if not for the McCaskeys.


Imagine.

Great goal line stand to save the game against the Eagles, should be 3-1 but with the D and Orton managing the offense the Bears look good, IMO. It helps to be in the NFC North with the overrated Vikings and Packers and that other team that plays in Detroit.

3-1? Bullshit, they should be 4-0... but I'll take this win. Before the season started, if you would have told me the bears would have been 2-2 after 4 games, I would have been ecstatic, and I would have thought the wins would have come against the exact opposite teams. Huge win, huge perfomance by the D. I was 100 percent convinced that the bears were going to lose that game, during the eagle's drive that culminated in the 4 down goal line stand. You would have had to give me like 10-1 for me to bet on the bears when it was 1st and goal at the the five. I'm like a battered woman at this point, after the past two weeks. I felt no joy in the bears win, only a vast relief that I didn't have to suffer yet another 4th quarter melt down loss. I can't take games like this any more, but I imagine this year is going to be full of them. The bears still have an excellent chance of winning the central. I just wish they wouldnt' have given away the week 2 and 3 games.. when you have a QB as terrible as Orton, you can't afford to lose those kinds of games if you expect to make the playoffs. But at least the bears aren't done. If they started 1-3, they would have been done.

This sums it up.

This could be hard to do.

lol I do that all the time.. stupid NFC north.

You know who I want? Michael Vick. There, I said it. The bears will be able to get him for 1/10th his value or less, and what ever his limitations are as a QB, at least he has dynamic offensive weapons that teams have to adjust to. And, if a couple years in the hole have deteriorated his QB skills to the point that he is useless, well then, so what? You took a cheap shot at a potentially difference making QB... when your options are Neck Beard and Girl Hands, I think that is exactly the time you roll the dice on a player like Vick. I don't want the Bears to waste one more precious season of their ever shrinking window on QB's who shouldn't start in the CFL.

They should pick up Daunte Culpepper, but for some reason they like having to rely on their defense.

They should pick him up this season sure, why not. But next year i'd 100 percent rather have Vick.

Because we should pick up someone who couldn't play QB for the Raiders. THE RAIDERS.

their last two Qb's couldn't start for the raiders either.

I don't think Dan Marino could play QB for the Raiders. Seriously

Never gonna happen as long as the McCaskeys run things. They only care about character, not skill. 100% guarantee this.

I know this is true with my head, but my heart cries out for Vick.. it just makes so much sense. It's going to be sweet seeing Minnnesota run the option all over us with the Vick/Peterson combo

Is there like, some discussion going on about Vick getting back in the NFL I haven't seen?

I dunno, I just assumed that he was going to play next year, I could be wrong. I started getting delirious after Orton kept turning the ball over.

If he does come back, I think it would be for a team that's especially desperate, but I can't see many teams doing that. He's not exactly a guy who will sell tickets anymore.

So the Grossman/Orton years fail to qualify as desperate? And I think you underestimate Vick's drawing power. if he still is fast and dynamic, people will go crazy for him. Plus, everyone loves a redemption story.

I don't understand the Bear's inability to get a QB over the years. There have been plenty available in free agency that would be better than their no headed monster.

Hey, they pulled the trigger on the Rick Mirer trade. That was only, what, 10 years ago? Cut them some slack.

Kordell "I would rather be shooting gay porn" Stewart we supposed to be the savior at one point too.